Site Infections

There are few frequently possible site infections. In the most of the cases the main site page is replaced with another one, uploaded by a hacker. There are also specialized hackers who upload whole programs to the website, in order to take the website’s domain and look for big security holes.
This is most likely a result of a compromised and not fully updated application, site, exploitable php scripts, etc, which can be used by the attacker (most of the time an automated spider).

Important note: all websites are prone to attacks.

Most of our clients are using more than one application and/or 3rd parties software. In these cases knowledge is required about how to avoid attacker attempts.
Here are some useful advices:

The update of your applications is a process, which can be handled by yourself. This can be done automatically or manually.

Please note: if the application was manually installed, it should be manually updated as well. An automatic update can be done trough the application’s web administration /recommended/ or cPanel’s Softaculous interface.

Here are some related pages with information, describing this process for two of the most common platforms – WordPress & Joomla

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